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3 Pak soldiers killed in
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Srinagar, November 3 Pakistani troops fired on forward Indian positions using heavy calibre small arms in the Haji Peer area of Uri sector in Baramula district yesterday afternoon, forcing the Indian troops to retaliate, they said. Meanwhile, the Indian troops observed movement of six Pakistani soldiers towards a forward post along the LoC in the Khawaja Bandi and Mottiwali areas and in the exchange of fire three of them were feared killed, the sources added. They said the firing from both sides had stopped and there was no fresh report of shelling in any sector. Meanwhile, four persons, including two Hizbul Mujahidden militants, were killed in separate incidents in the Kashmir valley since last night, a police spokesman said today. Two Hizbul ultras were killed in an encounter with security forces at Chewa village in the Beerwah area of Badgam district in central Kashmir last night, he said. A civilian was also killed in the shootout, the spokesman said, adding that some arms and ammunition were recovered from the killed militants. The body of a person, abducted and later killed by suspected militants, was picked up by the police from the Tral area of Pulwama district in south Kashmir today, the spokesman said.
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Hand over Jerusalem to UN: Farooq Srinagar, November 3 However, he said he was not sure if the USA would let that happen. “Let Jerusalem, which is the bone of contention in the Middle-East, be a UN territory with its headquarters shifted there,” he told Egyptian journalists who interviewed him here on the global situation in the wake of the terrorist Blitz on the USA.
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Primer in Kashmiri
released Srinagar, November 3 The Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah, released the primer at the function held in connection with the inauguration of a training camp at the Girls Higher Secondary Institute, Kothi Bagh, here yesterday. The Education Minister, Mohammad
Shafi, and other senior officers, writers and scholars were present on the occasion. The primer titled ‘Kaeshir Kitab’ prepared by eminent scholars has been published by the Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education. The Chief Minister also released the Kashmiri language teachers’ training manual on the occasion. The Chief Minister described the day as a historic one for Kashmir and its people. He said, “Its credit goes to those who strived for the
introduction of the language in the curriculum.” He complimented writers and intellectuals for being persistent with their demand that made this day possible. Even though there were difficulties in the implementation of the decision and skepticism expressed by some quarters about the success of this programme, the government went ahead considering the significance of mother tongue for the overall development of a child, he added. He said other regional languages like
Dogri, Punjabi, Balti, Bodhi, Gujri and Pahari would also be taught in primary schools. There was no better way to know about one’s culture and history than through ones own mother tongue. Hence the extra burden that children were supposed to take by learning their mother tongue in schools was worth taking, he added. The Minister for Education, Mohammad Shafi, termed the introduction of regional languages at the elementary level as an eventful and revolutionary step in the education system of the state. Regional languages would be introduced in schools in a planned manner for which teachers would be trained, he added. About the Kashmiri language, the minister said, 5,400 in-service teachers would be imparted training in three phases of five days each. In the first phase beginning yesterday, he said, 3,200 teachers would receive training at 60 centres. Dispelling the notion that Kashmiri was the language of the people of the valley alone, he said it was spoken in various parts of the Jammu region too. Likewise, people in Ladakh region did not speak only one language. Primer for the Balti language spoken in Kargil was also ready as was that of Dogri which will be soon introduced in schools. |
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5 held, fake currency racket busted Srinagar, November 3 Superintendent of Police Abdul Qayoom Mir told reporters here that the breakthrough came with the arrest of Inoor Mohammad Sheikh from the Qalamdauya area of the city recently. Shiekh, during interrogation, confessed to his involvement in the racket and led the police to a house in the Bemina area from where Altaf Ahmad, who was printing notes using a computer, was arrested, Mr Mir said. The owner of the house, Mohammad Sultan, was also arrested and thousands of fake notes were seized, he said. Their interrogation led to the arrest of two more persons, Mohammad Ashraf Khan and Bigal Ahmad, he said.
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